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The effects of different pretreatment conditions and fixation regimes on serotonin immunoreactivity: a quantitative light microscopic study

JR Clements and AJ Beitz

An investigation was designed to evaluate the effects of three different fixation regimes on the retention of serotonin-like immunoreactivity in rat midbrain tissue sections. The effects of pretreatment with pargyline-HCl and l-tryptophan on the volume fraction of serotonin-like immunoreactive processes were also examined. Rat brain tissue was fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (Pf), 4% paraformaldehyde-0.2% picric acid-0.05% glutaraldehyde (Pf-Pa-G), or 4% paraformaldehyde-0.2% glutaraldehyde (Pf-G). Tissue was subsequently processed for immunohistochemistry using a modified peroxidase- antiperoxidase technique and quantified at the light microscopic level by point counting. Fixation with Pf resulted in higher volume fraction determinations of axonal serotonin immunoreactivity than did fixation with Pf-Pa-G or Pf-G. These results provide quantitative data which indicate that even low levels of glutaraldehyde in the fixative significantly decrease serotonin immunoreactivity. Pretreatment with pargyline and tryptophan increased the amount of serotonin immunoreactivity in tissue fixed with Pf-G but not in tissue fixed with Pf. Pretreatment with pargyline and tryptophan is thus recommended when using glutaraldehyde in the fixation process to assure adequate serotonin immunoreactivity. Pretreatment in conjunction with glutaraldehyde fixation, however, appears to cause differential increases in serotonin-like immunoreactivity within brain nuclei that may compromise the interpretation of results.

Volume 33, Issue 8, pp. 778-784, 08/01/1985
Copyright © 1985 by The Histochemical Society


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